rising poverty. As the crisis gained momentum, the action of automatic stabilisation mechanisms built into the national tax …

Liberal British or the Southern Greek financing system increases inequality and poverty, as well as labour supply incentives … necessarily lead to less poverty. Tax payments are extremely high, whereas social contribution payments are relatively low leading …

fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …

This paper deals with concepts of multidimensional poverty measurement and applies them to Germany. Three concepts of … poverty are examined and included into one multidimensional approach: economic well being, capability and social exclusion …, and the influence of changing levels of substitutability between achievements on the poverty dimensions is examined. It …

demonstrate the application of these new measures to analyze the development of poverty and richness over time in Germany, to … compare Germany to many other European countries and to investigate the impact of tax reforms on poverty and richness. Using …